Posted on 12/08/2024 5:27:16 AM PST by Timber Rattler
A four-square-mile patch of Kursk Oblast in western Russia is a graveyard for Russian vehicles—and a harbinger of a looming catastrophe for the Kremlin as its yearlong offensive in Ukraine begins to falter.
Kriegsforscher, a Ukrainian marine corps drone operator supporting the 20,000-strong Ukrainian force that has held a 20-by-12-mile salient in Kursk since August, tallied around 90 wrecked and abandoned Russian vehicles just in his two-by-two-mile sector on the northwest edge of the salient.
That’s an entire brigade’s worth of vehicles. Ukrainian losses in the same sector have been much lighter: just 20 or so.
A four-to-one loss ratio in favor of Ukraine isn’t unusual. In fact, it’s only slightly higher than the overall 3:1 loss ratio for the whole 34-month wider war on Ukraine: 14,500 destroyed Russian vehicles against 5,200 destroyed Ukrainian vehicles.
What’s notable, and ominous for the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is when and where the Russian armed forces lost all those vehicles. They’re what the Russians have left behind in two waves of unsuccessful attacks on the Ukrainian salient in Kursk over a period of six weeks starting in early November.
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Russian dead now over 200,000 with the latest failed meat-wave attacks
FAIL
Fighting the previous war or wars syndrome. I think tank warfare sort of became obsolete back during the Gulf war in the early 1990s.
Four square miles.
In 45 days the money flow stops.
Think so?
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Now you’re starting to learn. You have a long way to go, though.
You dirty the great Freerepublic with your warmongering propaganda.
I don’t care. This country needs to negotiate a peace agreement.
whelp, that’s it. Russia is toast. Whew, it was close but with the loss of those 90 vehicles Russia will retreat back their country and rebuild Ukraine as pennance.
What a joke. Cuz, Russian just can’t take losses like that and survive...... well maybe..it’s so funny that this happened in Kursk... cuz the Russians lost between 6,000 and 7,000 tanks during the Battle of Kursk:
- read again...Tanks destroyed or damaged: 6,064–7,000 tanks and assault guns, with 60–65% completely destroyed
-600,000 troops, 1,626–3,300 aircraft, and 5,244 guns and mortars lost. Ask the Germans how that victory worked out for them....or was it a loss... hahahaha...
nobody reads history. what a joke.
LOL. FORBES writes this garbage every day and morons that buy it are DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for women and children deaths in Ukraine
And they disgust me.
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As of today Russia is getting combat golf carts and scooters from China, drones from Iran, and some armor and ammunition from North Korea.
Without them Russia would be relying solely on their up armored minivans.
Those guys like Scott Ritter or Martin Armstrong who say what you, or perhaps your boss, wants to hear.
As of today Russia is getting combat golf carts and scooters from China, drones from Iran, and some armor and ammunition from North Korea.
Without them Russia would be relying solely on their up armored minivans.
Here's a pretty good analysis of the recent history of Russian winter strategy and how offensive operations are not really advantageous to anyone (even the Russians) and may explain the lack of the use of ground forces to engage the enemy and advance.... nasty business..
You're right, I suppose. Haven't seen a single Russian tank, ship,helicopter or plane. They're all gone.
I guess since all the Russian men are dead and all their equipment is destroyed we should just wait till Zelensky captures Putin, puts him on trial and forces Russia to restore Ukraine to it's pre-war condition...
I mean, there is no way on earth that Russia could possibly beat the Ukrainian armed forces and all their heros....
Or... they're getting ready for winter, preparing to destroy the Ukraine power grid,cutting off supplies from the EU/NATO/USA and just waiting for nature to take it's course. They will not attack in force during the winter because they won't need to.... Ukraine should be worried that the sacrifice it made in blood and territory will be shrugged off by the US and they will be left with half a country, promising to not allow NATO to put missles on it's territory and having all their assets "acquired" by hedge funds, BlackRock, Vanguard and all the corporate parasites that will feed off the Ukrainian corpse in order to pay back for the cost of repairing all the damage done in this war....
But the best will be all those oil/natural gas leases, rare earth mines and all that prime farmland.... It's a win-win for the US.
Meanwhile the Ukrainian and Russian men that were ground up can rest in peace knowing that they died for freedom, their patriotic duty for country and of course a signifcant increase in the bottom line of all the defense contractors and resource pirates.....
I personally don't think the Russians will mount a big offensive this winter unless someone decides to take the war deep into Russia... then it'll get really nasty.
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/chew.pdf
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